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N I S T e – N E W SMessage from the Director

Two events, held back to back, at our NIST campus have highlighted the creative energy and theinnovation of our NIST Community. The VLSI workshopdemonstrated our commitment to an emerging R & Dopportunity and our determination to be a part of thesemiconductor industry. Having two VLSI stalwarts, Dr.Chandrashekar, Director, CEERI Pilani and Dr. C.P. RaviKumar, VP, Texas Instruments, on our campus was a dreamcome true for many. Sankalp 2005 was a wonderful creativeevent. The number and scope of the events have broken themyth that today's students are all about "song, dance & fashionshow". Our students organized brainware events and livelytalks and panel discussion. The students of the ISTE chapter

have truly and fully fulfilled their "pledge to excel". Congratulations to all of them.

On another front, a lot of thinking is going around in the country about the future of technicaleducation. India, as reported by the press, gives out US $15 billion for the education of Indianstudents to countries such as US, Australia, UK, Spain, Russia, China, Ireland, etc., whereas its ownIT industry earns only $12 billion. So a net loss of $3 billion to the country! Why such a large braindrain and financial drain in the area of higher education?

The lack of quality higher institutes of learning and lack of superior infrastructure has made ourstudents outbound. The AICTE and Human Resources Department ought to make serious efforts toincrease the quality and quantity of institutes offering higher technical education. The issue ofattracting and retaining the highest quality faculty is of paramount importance. We have to enhanceour interaction with the industry and the output of educational institutes must be in line with ournational requirements.

I urge all to think about the future of technical education in our country. A workshop to be addressedby the Honorable Chairman of AICTE Prof Damodhar Acharya is scheduled to be held in January,2006, where these inputs can be presented. Until then, I am awaiting your feedback.

November 15, 2005 Sangram Mudali

Message from the EditorI was thinking to write something about student activities at NIST when Sankalp2005 flashed in mymind. It was a record of a large number of participants from rest of India. Their active participation,enjoyable stay and zestful moments made this campus a Centre for All India Engineering Students forthree days. All the Technical Workshops, Quizzes, whole night C debugging, Robotics, DJ Nite etc., –again proved that talent, discipline and right attitude are ingrained in NIST students. It is students,who have brought about this massive success. So, in celebration of their success, we have selectedstudents as Person(s) of the Month for NISTe_News .

During the inauguration ceremony, the Honorable RDC of South Orissa, Mr Parag Gupta, made asignificant comment that Berhampur is a beautiful city. This small city contains 3 good engineeringcolleges, 1 renowned university, 1 medical college, 3 famous pharmacy colleges, 2 law colleges, 2engineering schools and many other Govt./Pvt. Schools and colleges. Moreover, many otherattractions of eastern India like the Sea beach of Gopalpur, Hot water spring at Taptapani, IREseaport and Chillika lake are within close distance from this city. It is a center for business of entiresouth Orissa. Also, I want to recollect the lecture of Mr C P Pujari, General Manager of ParadeepPhosphates, where he emphasized on “Change”. In each and every organization, individuals shouldwelcome the Change. He rightly mentioned that everything in the world is changing, only the constantis “Change”. We have to fit ourselves in this changing world and for that we need to face and win thechallenges courageously.

November 15, 2005 Partha S Mallick

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Placement of the Last Month(October 15, 2005 – November 15, 2005)

Sl # Name Batch Organization1 Samikhya Dash M.Tech (2003-05) IBM Global Services, Kolkata

2 Nisith Ranjan Sahoo BE (2001-05) US Technology, Chennai

3 Amar Andavarapu BE (2001-05) Infosys,Technologies, Bangalore

4 Ved Prakash Nayak BE (2001-05) Pinnacle Software, Bangalore

5 Abhijit Mohapatra BE (2001-05) Pinnacle Software, Bangalore

6 D. Sudhir BE (2001-05) Logica CMG

The ToppersHere is the List of the Toppers in the recentlypublished University results. NISTianscongratulate all of you. Top 10 in BE (2001- 2005 batch) Name (Out of 4200)

1. Soubhagya Mishra(CSE) 36252. Biswajita Mishra(ELE) 35113. V. Aswini Kumar(ELE) 34374. Dipanwita Dash(ELE) 34325. Bandana Rout(ECE) 34116. Supreeti Mitra(EIE) 34047. Suchismita Pradhan(EIE) 34028. Sonali Mohanty(ECE) 33959. Durga Prasad Rath(ECE) 337410. Amit Kumar Das(ECE) 3373

Top 10 in M.Tech(2003-2005 Batch)Name CGPA (out of 10)

1. Samikhya Dash 9.052. Manmath Nath Roy 8.883. Trilochan Panigrahi 8.584. Debabrat Purohit 8.575. Prabira Ku Samanta 8.206. Snehaprabha Acharya 8.077. Meryleen Mohapatro 8.068. Sanjeev Ku Mishra 8.039. Priyabrat Pattnayak 7.9310. Biswajit Parija 7.91

Top 10 in MCA(2002- 2005 Batch)Name Out of 3300

1. Prasanna Pati 26252. Upama Kumari 25883. Mohua Pradhan 25864. Naveen Kumar 25425. Santosh Ku Nayak 24766. Ashis Kumar Patra 24587. Ambika Prasad Swain24418. Arindam Bose 24329. Radha Mohan Dash 242710. M. Rajendra Prasad 2423

Top 10 in 8th Sem, BE (2001-05 batch) Name Out of 700

1. Soubhagya Mishra(CSE) 6172. Dipanwita Dash(ELE) 6073. Biswajita Mishra(ELE) 5994. Suchismita Pradhan(EIE) 5935. V. Aswini Kumar(ELE) 5856. Sonali Mohanty(ECE) 5837. Tapaswini Mishra(ECE) 5808. Suresh Ch Martha(ECE) 5769. Amit Kumar Das(ECE) 57110. Kuntula Keshaba Ku(ELE) 570

Top 10 in 5th Sem, BE (2002-06 batch) Name Out of 700

1. Neha Srivastava(CSE) 5812. Prasanna Ku Sahoo(ELE) 577

2. Chittaranjan Prusty(EIE) 577 3. Ch. Sreenivas Rao(EIE) 5714. Tanmay Ranjan Kar(ELE) 567

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6. Shant Swaroop Samal(EIE) 5647. Sweta Acharya(CSE) 5637. Deepika Nayak(IT) 5637. K Someswar Rao(CSE) 5638. Sambhuram Patnaik(CSE) 5629. Lipsa Naik(EIE) 557

10. Sucharita Das(ELE) 556

Workshop on VLSI Circuits at NISTA five-day Very Large Scale IntegratedCircuit (VLSI) workshop was held in thepremises of National Institute of Science &Technology (NIST) from October 19-23,

2005. More than 50 delegates from allleading institutes of the country and the stateparticipated in the workshop. HonorableVice Chancellor of Biju Pattnaik Universityof Technology, Prof. Omkar Nath Mohanty

inaugurated the workshop. He appreciatedth growth of NIST in a short span of nineyeNImHoCh

C P Ravikumar, Texas Instruments, Prof DMukhopadhyay, Electronics andTelecommunication Engineering, JadavpurUniversity, Dr Subhas Bose, Scientist,CEERI, Pilani, Dr.Bharadwaj Amruther,IISc, Bangalore, Subhankar Das and AdityaDesai, KARMIC (KarnatakaMicroelectronics). The workshop wasorganised by NIST VLSI group led by DrAjit K Panda and Mr M Suresh. Theworkshop was sponsored by VLSI Society ofIndia (VSI) and co-sponsored by Infosys,HP, CS, VI Microsystems, IntegratedMicrosystems, Mechatronics, Sagar Xerox,HCL along with some other companies.

Intranet mail service for StudentsWe are happy to announce that the Intranete-mail service between faculty and staff andstudents is now fully operational. Studentscan utilize this service from the thin clientlaboratory at the library to send theirdoubts/queries/projects/assignments/etc., tofaculty members as and when required. Rightnow, this service is now restricted to only2002- 006 batch. Very soon it will beoperational for other batches as well. Anyannouncement regarding examinations,projects and technical seminars will be sentto the students through this e-mail service.For any doubt, all are advised to contact MrDev Padhy, System Administrator of NIST.

Saturday Seminar Series….Our Computer Science and IT facultymembers are continuing their SaturdaySeminars in full swing. This will help toimprove technical skill of all facultymembers, students and staff. Here is the listof Seminars held in the last month.

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ecord in GRE Score amarendra Biswal of 2001 batch hasrpassed the previous record in GRE atIST. He has secured1420 out of 1600,hich is a new record for NISTians. Hisore in verbal is 670 out of 800 and inritten 750 out of 800. Congratulations!

IST faculty at IIT, Roorkeenakshi Prasad Mishra, faculty of

published many research papers in variousConferences and Journals of Internationalrepute. His research interests are inHolography, Optical Bistability & Fiber-Optics. We wish him all success.

Hostel Superintendents Dr Purna Chandra Biswal, faculty of

Mathematics is nowthe Superintendent ofNIST Hostel 6situated at Giri Road,Berhampur. Dr PurnaChandra Biswal is aPhD from IISc,

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manities at NIST attended anternational Conference on Commonealth Literature from October 13-15, 2005.

he Conference was organized by Indianociety for Commonwealth studies inssociation with Department of Humanities Social Sciences, IIT, Roorkee. He

resented a paper titled “The Maximum Citynd the Sophisticated Subalterns inohintron Mystery’s Tales from Feroz Shahaag”. The abstract has been published ine Conference proceedings.

raining at Satyam IST faculty Mr Debananda Kanhar andr. Pradeep K Jena attended a training

rogram in Bhubaneswar from November 8-, 2005. The training program was organizedy Satyam Computers to developterpersonal skill and soft skills. Theaining was based on C, Networking, Datatructure and Software Engineering. 12udents from NIST who were recruited byatyam also participated in the program.

ew Batch Coordinator of 3rd YearDr Sukant Tripathy hasnow taken over theresponsibility as the 3rd yearBatch Coordinator. DrTripathy did his Ph.D fromBerhampur University and

Bangalore and author of two books ondiscrete mathematics and optimization.He worked in BITS, Pilani for more than3 years.

Mr Gayadhar Panda, faculty ofElectronics and

ElectricalEngineering, hastaken theresponsibility ofHostel No 3 situatedat Gosaninuagaon,

Berhampur. He is an ME from ShibpurBE College, West Bengal and now at theend of his PhD work supervised by Prof.Arun Panda of IGIT, Sarang, Orissa. Hehas already published many researchpapers in various International Journaland Conferences.

Mr Debashish Jena, faculty ofElectronics &Electrical Engg, hastaken theresponsibility ofHostel No 7 situatedat Kanisi,Berhampur. He is

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N I S T e – N E W San M.Tech from UCE, Burla and hasmore than 6 years of teaching experience.

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N I S T e – N E W STT Tournament organized by NISTNIST has organized the Inter College Table

Tennis Tournament of Berhampur Universitythis year. The tournament was held at NISTcampus from November 22-24, 2005.Around twenty different colleges

participated in this tournament. In the finalboys section, GIET, Gunupur won againstMKCG medical college, Berhampur, by 3-1and in the final girls section, ChatrapurWomen’s College won against NIST,Berhampur. All the trophies and prizes weredistributed by our Placement Director Mrs.Geetika Mudali and Dean Dr. Ajit KumarPanda. Dr. Arun Ku. Padhy, Dr. Partha .S.Mallick, Mr. Indraneel Mukhopadhay, Mr.Debanand Kanhar and Mr Amar BikramSahoo of NIST officiated all the matches.

IT Olympiad - 2005The 4th Information Technology OlympiadTest was organised at NIST campus onAugust 08, 2005. Around 67 NISTians fromdifferent semesters appeared for the test.Rakesh Parida of 7th Semester and AshimGhosal of 3rd Semester bagged the 6th and 7th

positions respectively. Congratulations.

Parasailing - 2005It was a great feeling of flying like a bird.Our Students Activities Center organised the

Parasailing-2005 at the airfield ground nearBerhampur University. Around 187participants including students, faculty andstaff participated in the parasailing event. Itis really inspiring that 47 girl students didtheir parasail successfully.

SPIC MACAY at NISTThe SPIC MACAY chapter of NISTorganizes functions every year at NISTcampus. This year, one concert was

organized onOctober 1, 2005.The artist was

ILEANACITARISTA, anItalian, who is aPhD in EasternMythology. Shewas involved inIndian danceafter years ofexperience in the

traditional as well as experimental theatre inEurope. Her mentor in the Odissi dance isGuru Padma Vibhusana KelucharanMohapatra. She is equally well versed indifferent postures of the Chhau dance ofMayurbhanj, Orissa which she learnt underthe guidance of Guru Shri Hari Nayak. Shehas obtained the title of Acharya from theSangeet Mahavidylaya of Bhubaneshwar,Orissa. She has her own Institute named ArtVision at Bhubaneshwar. She is impartingtraining in odissi and chhau dances there.

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N I S T e – N E W SA Letter from Italy …..From: Indranath Bhattacharyya<indranath_bhattacharyya@yahoo.co.in>To:smudali@hotmail.comSubject: IndraDate: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:24:02 (BST)

Dear Sir, I am writing to you from Trieste,Italy. I have got a scope to visit in the HighEnergy Physics section, ICTP, Trieste, Italyfor two months. It is completely funded byICTP including my round trip journey, foodetc. It is very nice place and I was reallyspellbound at the moment I had arrived inVenice Airport. Initially, I had someproblems with food, but now it is ok. I willbe here upto 15th December 2005.

Sir, it is really a very good research institute,especially in the area of Theoretical Physics.It has a very good infrastructure with a

fabulous library. Just I am seeing everythingand thinking is it not possible to start a'Theoretical Physics Section' at NIST? InIndia, research in 'high energy TheoreticalPhysics' is conducted either in the Universityor in the Institute under DAE (Department ofAtomic Energy). As far as I know, no privateInstitute takes the initiative to start suchactivity. Why NIST cannot not be thepioneer in this respect? Not a very big fundis required to start such type of work; theonly important thing is taking properinitiative and planning for implementation.Some projects can be brought from DST,UGC and CSIR like organizations to get theinitial funding. Sir, please think about it.Rest are fine here. I am enjoying my work aswell as Italy. Thanking you, Yours Sincerely,Indra (Ex-Mathematics Faculty).

Alumni PageFrom: Ashish_Devta <Ashish_Devta@satyam.com> Subject: sir hope u could remember me Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:57:46 +0530 To: "Ravi Reddy" ravipreddy@yahoo.com Sir, Regards, Hope you can remember me. I am Ashish Devta, We met at Hyderabad coupleof months back. It’s been really long and I am missing my college. Sir, I always thought butnever could tell you that you are an amazing teacher. You must be thinking about Java or Cbut I am talking about English here. I was a vernacular student. It was difficult for me to givemy introduction properly when I joined NIST. One fine morning you dropped in and said "ifyou want to learn English learn it through movies. The day you can laugh at the comedies,that is the time you can say I know this language". Just for the record, I did that all through.The guy who could not give his first introduction selected in Wipro Spectramind and iSeva(both voice based call centers) and left and finally joined Satyam. Who could not speakproperly, sang into the hearts of all juniors with the English Rap numbers. And I mailed youto say that for me, it took eight hundred movies and four long years but today I don't miss anyLaugh. Regards, Ashish Devta(26094) Software Engg., CES-PLM., Office:080-22353333Ext. 3661 Infantry Road, Bangalore. RaviPReddy: Your message warmed the cockles of my heart. Thanks for your confidence inmy advice.

Subject: thanks Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:31:39 +0530 From: "Santosh Kumar Nayak" <SantoshKumar.Nayak@igate.com> To: "Ravi Reddy" ravipreddy@yahoo.comDear Sir, With love and regards, thanks for your great effort, affection and cooperation fortaking us to such position. I am glad and delighted to inform you that we were able to showour potential during the training period in iGATE Global Solutions Ltd., which we havelearned in NIST. We have always kept our vision and performance well. Among all otherbatches our Orissa batch has done extremely well (according to the trainers and other igateteam visitors and managers), and among them the NISTians according the results in the

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N I S T e – N E W Sexams and the projects that we have done here. We occupied four out of five individualperformances and all the two best projects selected from the seven are done by NISTians.What I remarked is that if a person has a greater goal and vision like a player who plays forthe sake of nation, then all the smaller ones are automatically get fulfilled like individualfame, money, health, pleasure etc. Our vision was to have a better performance as a teamfrom Orissa or as a NISTian for which we put all our efforts to show our skills that we havelearned from the institute and you. All the best for the NISTians. Thanks with regards.Santosh Kumar Nayak, MCA (NIST).

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:57:43 +0530 From: rabindra.kumar.patro@accenture.com Subject: Dear sir.. To: Partha Mallick<psmallick@yahoo.com>Dear sir, I am Rabindra, ex-student of NIST(EIE, Roll No:165, 2000-2004 Batch). PresentlyI am working in Accenture India, Bangalore.. I would like to share a moment with you. Sir Ithink you don’t remember me but I would say I’ve got my job only due to my project whatI’ve done under your guidance. In my tech interview I was asked only about my project. As Iam from EIE background I did not find any opportunity to show my talent. Here in S/W, eachcompany is looking for EC, CS and IT students. Thanks to Accenture who gave a call to mefor recruitment process. It was taking more time for me to get job. I have got offer in May butjoined on 16th August. Now my training in SIEBEL (CRM) is over. I’ll be doing project onSiebel from 7th October onwards. Thank you sir .. I think only because of you I am here now.Thanks and regards. Rabindra Ku Patro.

From:krushna rathenggkrushna@yahoo.com Subject:Krushna( passout student of NIST)Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 04:34:06 –0700 To: Partha Mallick<psmallick@yahoo.com>Hi Sir, I am Krushna Chandra Rath, a 2004 pass out student of NIST, from Electronics &Instrumentation branch. Currently I am working as a software Engineer with Avaya Ind Pvt.Ltd, Pune, a US based telecom company. I hope you all are fine. I hope our e-News is alsopublishing well. Really our college is a good one in Orissa, or else I will say in India. Really Ican't forget my college, as only for it now am in a good position in a Fortune 500 company.Thanks to my teachers, Ajit Panda, Ravi P Reddy, B.K.Dash and then to all of the staff. Iliked most the personality of B.K.Dash who always maintaining a rule and discipline. Also toRavi P Reddy, for his challenging nature and Ajit Panda, my all time favourite ELC teacher.Also I like the mixing language of Ajit Panda and thanks to you as you a e my favorite Fiber-Optics Teacher. I heard about our college recruiting process is that, mor than 200 guys weregot selected in campus recruitment. So it’s a great news. It should crequest to you is that, still I am a part of NIST. So I hope you people wiam not getting any news about our college, I need a soft copy of e-news best wishes to all of our college juniors and all of our college staff.Krushna Chandra Rath.Partha S Mallick: The softcopy of NISTe_News are available in www.n

Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:54:47 +0500 (IST) From: mohantysoTo: “G V Kiran Kumar” <gvkirankumar@indiatimes.com> SubjecRespected Sir, I am Sonali here. How are you? Now I am in Mumbai. Iand half months general training. From Monday onwards we will be onam in SAP. In the last one and half months training we were taught sengg, RDBMS, SQL, SSAD, Software testing, data structure and manNIST? How are Amalendu sir, Ghatak sir, Suresh sir and others. Wherewe are missing NIST a lot. While in college we used to bunk classes, bhere we can't do that. Give me all details about my college. Hope I wRegards Sonali Mohanty.

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nali84@sify.com t: sir, sonali here have completed one technical training. Iubjects like softwarey more. What about is Srinivas sir? Nowunk college also, butill get a reply soon.

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N I S T e – N E W SStudent’s Corner

Hope Smruti Sagarika, 3rd SemesterHope to keep your aspirations high.Even if later you might have to sigh.Hope to keep your faith unwavered,Even if your questions go unanswered.Hope to keep the flame of life burning,Even if your turmoils have no ending.Hope to dream beautiful and bigger,

Even if there’s a chance they shatter.Hope to keep up your determination,Even if you can’t find your destination.Because its always better to haveA reason for living, than do nothing.So never stop hoping, as that will keep yougoing.

SANKALP Beckons D. Arun Reddy, CSE, 2003 batchI can't refrain myself from not writing this article, to speak the truth actually, I thought ofwriting this only after brushing against "22 days to go.... SANKALP -05"at Octagon.

Well when one half of the college is already gripped in SANKALP fever and the othermajority (especially First year students in an utopia state to go home) its time to ask yourselfto this year's SANKALP tagline” Pledge to Excel...." and paradoxically hesitating toparticipate in the few events of their lifetime.

SANKALP events are hailed as the best to match your performances with perfection. Mydear friends success begins with a fellows WILL and as the saying goes "Nothing VenturedNothing Got ". To the organisers who must have already spent several sleepless nights rightfrom preparing the drafts, to designing the Poster which I acknowledge to be the best amongprevious two years, to designing the website, postal work etc. Do carry on your good efforts.

When a task is driven by a sense of purpose, the deadlines prevent us from relaxing. The joyof sharing responsibility is immense at least for those who believe in teamwork and this isvery necessary in such hotly contested race of technical events (over 2000 happening/year).An event of this magnitude where the stake of institute is at hand should be taken seriously.

I hope my message has reached to all of you and one more thing: do enlighten yourexperience, views, opinions and feelings regarding “SANKALP-05 “to me or any of theNISTe_News student representatives or at niste_news@yahoo.com.

Tsunami Sumani Misra, 7th SemesterMost tsunamis occur in the Pacific because the ocean is rimmed by the Ring of Fire, a longchain of earth's most seismically active spot. Tsunami waves typically radiate out indirections opposite from the seismic disturbances. In the case of the Sumatra quake, theseismic fault ran north to south beneath the ocean floor, while the tsunami waves shot outwest and east. Tsunamis are distinguished from normal coastal surf by their great lengthand speed. A single wave in a tsunami series might be 160 km long and race across the oceanat 965 kmph. When it approaches a coastline, the wave slows dramatically, but it also rises togreat heights because the enormous volume of water piles up in shallow coastal bays. Andunlike surf, which is generated by wind and the gravitational tug of the moon and othercelestial bodies, tsunamis do not break on the coastline every few seconds. Because of theirsize, it might take an hour for another one to come.

Our Student RepresentativesPreeta Mohanty, Rohan Gupta, Arun Reddy, Rakesh Parida,

Smruti Sagarika and Amit Kumar Dash

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N I S T e – N E W SPatriotism and A Perplexed Patriot Kamlesh Parida, 7th Semester Another August the 15th comes and goes by. We enjoy our holiday in our own different ways and geton with our lives the very next day. Do we ever stop to think about what August the 15th reallymeans? Independence Day and its meaning keep getting blurred every year. What does independencemean to the “Gen Y”? Are we any less Indian, or patriotic for that matter?

Then again who decides how patriotic we are? Who sets the standards anyway? And even if someonedoes try and become the regulating authority what are the yardsticks used? Dictionary says-a personwho loves his country enough to defend against enemies is a patriot.

I keep wondering if anyone can really quantify patriotism. Patriotism is after all abstracts. Just as wecan’t quantify happiness or grief maybe we can’t quantify patriotism at all. What is the purpose of thearticle you ask? Truth is I don’t know and that’s why I’m perplexed. I wonder why we bunk classes towatch India lose yet another cricket final. What is the feeling which compels us to keep looking forSarabjit in newspapers? Why are we so emotional about our soldiers at the frontier? What is soinspiring about an Indian at the podium in an Olympics? And what’s so special about Kashmiranyway? What would justify sacrificing thousands of lives and 2.5% of our GDP on a state which isquite insignificant in relation to revenue earned from it? Isn’t everything about good Economics?

Maybe its just worthwhile spending crores on something one believes in. Crying with India on losingVikram Batra didn’t feel feminine at all. Perhaps it’s okay if your heart skips a beat whenever wewatch our flag waved by our cricketers in foreign lands. Perhaps it’s normal if there is a funny feelingstirring up inside of you every time you hear Lata Mangeshkar sing ‘Aye mere watan ke logon’. It’snot that ‘uncool’ to wake up early and catch the Independence Day speech. Sometimes stating theobvious is compulsory, because what may be obvious to you may be an alien concept to anotherperson. What a pity! If only we had stated the very obvious, some of questions above would neverhave been asked. You may love someone very dearly. But stating your love is just as important. Askanyone in a successful relationship how important it is to state your love and he will tell you that itmakes all the difference. In our context that special one in consideration is our country. Stating ourlove for her may well be worthwhile.

Perhaps the underlying premise, which would justify all, the lines above can be very convenientlycalled “Patriotism”. Maybe we don’t need to measure our patriotism and maybe the beauty of the‘mythical abstraction’ lies in our inability to comprehend it.

KALEIDOSCOPE Rakesh Parida, 5th Semester‘God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;He plants his footsteps in the sea

And rides upon the storm. ’These words of Cower were enlightening enough but in the context of theevents of the month bygone they look all the more gruesome. Theearthquake that swept us all of the ground, culminated in the demise ofmore than 20,000 people on both sides of the border. The agony and woecaused by the disaster reverberated throughout the world population. Beingthe eternal optimist, this catastrophe did have a brighter side to it. A thing which 50 years ofdiplomacy, whole lot of trains, buses and everything that moved under the sun, couldn’t do; this quakehas made it all to visible. There’s isn’t a soul in the world who wouldn’t get goose bumps watchingthe people of both the war-torn adversaries commiserating each other. But looking at the other half ofthe world, isn’t it ironical that the so called economic, social and a superpower in whole lot of otherfields was on its knees pleading before the supremacy of the all mighty. Cyclone Katrina caused theloss of around 200 lives and affected the lives of millions around the globe. Talk about globalization!Now god wasn’t favorable to others as well. A mere rumor was all it took to send 600 odd souls totheir demise during a religious gathering in Baghdad. If you thought this column is changing itself toan obituary listing then can’t help it, angel of death on overtime, I guess. There’s a whole lot more towhimper about but the times had some cheers on their rolls as well.

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N I S T e – N E W SThe hottest figure around the business circles nowadays is the 8000 mark. I had predicted it in one ofmy previous editions. That makes me some sort of a fortune-teller. (This would have in sweeter, had Imade some bucks on the Bull Run!) Everything seems sunny now with the inflation rate down by1.01% and foreign investors seeing the brighter side of our markets. The Bull Run had actually beeninitiated by the confidence of a stable government which is going all guns blazing for economicreforms. The latest of these confidence building measures is one of cozying up with the EuropeanUnion. Mr. Blair was in India a few fortnights ago. Apart from paying quick visits to the palaces inJaipur, he notched up quite a few deals with Manmohan starting with the Airbus deal worth $3m. Isn’tit ironical that India is always the shopper but not the vendor in all these deals? But the bubble hassomewhat seemed to deflated over the past few weeks with the Sensex now hovering over the 8200mark. Staying with the political bigwigs, Lalu has finally something to cheer about with theannouncement of polls for Bihar. About time that Governor Buta Singh was relieved becauseestimating from the number of accusations he had leveled against himself, he wasn’t exactly on amerry go round. The games people are playing in Bihar are fitting enough to become a regular Hindimovie. Now that we have the action sequences with Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad getting shot at, the onlymissing part are some dance sequences.(I hope Lalu & Rabri would be kind enough to help us withthose) Talking of games, here’s a game that Preeti Jain played with Madhur Bhandarkar. The wholesexual harassment thing took a new turn with Mr. Gawli the erstwhile gangster cum self proclaimedsocial worker joining the tea party. Though I know a pair who would never be sitting down for teaever! The Chappell-Ganguly drama was testament enough of the flailing objective of Indian cricket.The door shown to Ganguly may be a step towards reform, though Chappell has yet to show us thecolors of true success. With yet another parade of pitiful cricket they are slowly but surely are killingthe game of cricket. But the same can’t be said about the recently concluded Ashes encounters.Believe me, they were one of the finest battles of cricket I have ever had the privilege of watching.Unfortunately, the Super Series was something of an anti-climax. With a string of pitiful one-sidedencounters, it was hardly living up to what it was initially billed out to be! (Now, what was ShoaibAkhtar doing in a World XI side?) Meanwhile Major Rathore has been winning some medals too. Thesame can be said about Anju Bobby George. These athletes still give me hope that an Olympic medalisn’t an utopian idea. Sometimes these Indian athletes give me a feeling that their performancewouldn’t do an about turn eve if they are on dope. Are we Indians, the perennial under-achievers thatwe always prove to be? I hopesure he is on his way out aftertitle has become the youngesthe color of the day it seems, in various areas. The recentlyhosting as well as participatinseemed to have brought thaKaleidoscope for month bygo

ParManzar Hassan, 1st SemesterIt was the nicest moment, whtime in our life. We had to refor parasailing. We were aboparachute filled with air in mtime, I reached at the maximuwas really enjoyable to fly in instructor and SAC Coordinat

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not! Meanwhile Narain has dampened it for all the F1 fans. I am quite a string of incessant failures. But Fernando Alonso having clinched thet champion ever, F1 has witnessed a reincarnation of Renault. Fresh isas the youth of India if not the world begins to make substantial strides concluded Delhi Half Marathon is proof enough that India is ready forg in global events. Finally the rains that lashed at our part of the worldt highly anticipated relief from the relentless heat. There you are,ne and for months to come, taking u through everything thick and thin.

asailing’ 2005 – Student’s View, B-Tech

ich I had on 25th September. We were going for parasailing for the firstach Berhampur University ground and there we had our demonstrationut 70 students. I was tied with a rope and accelerated by a jeep withy backside, the parachute starts rising swiftly in air and in a very shortm height of about 30 metres, the time span while in air was very less, itair and watch the scenes from the top. Thanks to the efforts of our Yogaor.

emester, B-Techr University ground was totally a new and adventurous experience.g as a bird trying to touch the sky. It always remain in my memory.

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N I S T e – N E W SVishesh Jha, 1st Semester, B-Tech It was a very fine experience, I was in air and the others were below me, I enjoyed when everyonewas cheering me from ground. My all time wish fulfilled - flying in the air like a bird-though for avery short span of time. Thanks to NIST and feeling bad for those who could not make it up.

Falguni Pattnaik, 1st Semester, B.TechOur college declared that a parasailing programme is going to be held on September 25, 2005. Iparticipated on that programme,. so many thing were going on in my mind how shall I fly in the sky,etc. At last the programme started, I was given the parachute and ran behind the jeep after running 2to 5 steps suddenly I found myself in the air at least 70 to 80 feet from the ground and, that was reallya good experience for me. I remained there for 3 to 4 minutes then I returned to ground.

Abhishek Nundan, 1st Semester, B.TechParasailing was organized on 25-09-2005 at Berhampur university ground by NIST, Berhampur. Itwas a wonderful experience. Everybody was flying at a height of about 20 meters from the ground-using parachute. When my turn came, I was tied with the parachute using some belts. Then the jeepwith which I was tied, just started moving and I was told to run. After that, I found myself above theground and this was for about two minutes. I just enjoyed the moments when I was in air. Our YOGAinstructor Ms. Basanti Patro had made special efforts to make our dreams come true. It was the firstadventurous event in my life and that was an unforgettable one.

Future TechnologyFuture computers may use light instead of electricityUsing a tiny silicon device, team of scientists has successfully slowed down light to 1/300th of itsordinary speed. This device, called crystal waveguide, may help to develop future computers usinglight instead of electricity for communications, reported the scientists in the Thursday’s issue of thejournal ‘Nature’. Heating the Photonic Crystal waveguide with a 2-mW integrated micro-heater,scientists could also control the velocity of light efficiently in about 100 nanoseconds. The light canbe further slowed by applying an electric field to the waveguide, the ‘Nature’ paper said. Thisachievement may one day help realise the dream of building Optical Computers, said Yurii Vlasov,physicist at IBM’s Watson Research-Centre.

India is becoming the center for Semiconductor ResearchThe semiconductor industry in India is set to take a big leap throwing open a large number ofemployment opportunities. The market is buoyant with more and more global players setting up shopin India. Recently, the Govt. of Andra Pradesh signed a pact with Nano-Tech Silicon India Pvt. Ltd.for sitting up a 1.2 billion Fab (Silicon Wafer Manufacturing Plant) in Hyderabad. This will be thefirst Fab lab in the country. All these developments show that players in the three areas ofSemiconductor Industry -Electronics Design Automation (EDA), Chip Designing and Fabrication aremaking India a Semiconductor hub. (Source – The Indian Express, November 7, 2005)

Career CornerMotorola QuestionsPriyadarshini Panda, Alumni, 2001-2005 1. Write a code to reverse a string using a

recursive function, without swapping orusing extra memory.

2. Difference between Macro and ordinarydefinition. Difference bet Class & Structure.

3. What is a Real Time OS? Name some.4. Describe VRTX in few words. 5. What is deadlock? How to avoid it? What is

a semaphore? 6. What exactly happens after each system call

in sockets, both at client & server.

7. What is the difference between widget &gadget in XWindows?

8. Tell about strtok & strstr functions. 9. C++ supports

a) pass by value onlyb) pass by namec) pass by pointer d) pass by value and by reference

10. Selection sort for a sequence of N elementsno of comparisons = _________no of exchanges= ____________.

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N I S T e – N E W SDo U Know…

IIM-Lucknow Opens Campus in NOIDA:The Indian Institute of Management,Lucknow (IIM-L)has inaugurated its NOIDACampus to be known as IIM-L NOIDA witha 3-year programme for employedmanagers. The IIM-L initiative is the first ofits kind from any IIM wherein a satellitecampus has been launched.

MP Birla Memorial Award 2005: Prof. V.Radhakrishna, Prof. Emeritus, RamanResearch Institute, Bangalore has beenconferred MP Birla Memorial Award 2005for excellence in fundamental research.

Raman Magsaysay Award 2005 : Dr. V.Shanta, Chairperson of Adyar, Chennai-based Cancer Research Institute, has won theRaman Magsaysay Award 2005 for publicservice in recognition of her untiringleadership of the Cancer Institute as a Centerof Excellence and Compassion for the studyand treatment of Cancer in India.

UK Award for Aishwarya Rai: The BritishGovernment has decidedto honor film actressA hwarya Rai with theNDAhebe

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Center of Excellence (CoEs) for students andcorporates in Pakistan at Lahore andKarachi.

India in Top 10 GDPs: According to thedata released by the World Bank on July 12,2005, India has joined the ranks of theWorld’s ten largest economics in terms of

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), graduatingfrom 12th to 10th slot in dollar terms between2003 to 2004. It is now worth $692 billionand in the process, has overtaken SouthKorea and Mexico while UK has remainedunchanged at fourth place. According to theWorld Bank which has described India as an”Asian Giant”, in the past two years India’seconomy grown by more than 7% and hasaverage 6% over the past decade on the backof buoyant industrial activity and massiveinvestment.

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he TOP 100 companies in India Suman Rani Acharya, CSE LabISTe-News is giving you a brief introduction about the top 100 companies in India.udents are advised to know about their product details, recruitment policy, company policyc., from their Websites given below.ank 1 BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LTD (BSNL)

Revenue : Rs 363,030 million(2004-2005) Chairman : Anil K SinhaWebSite : www.bsnl.co.inCorp. Office : Statesman House, B-148, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi , 110001

ank 2 WIPRO LTD Revenue : Rs 81,698 million(2004-2005) Chairman: Azim H. Premji

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N I S T e – N E W SWebSite : www.wipro.co.inRegd. Office : Wipro Corporation,76-p, Doddakhannelli, Sarjapur Road ,Bangalore, 560035 Fax : 080-28440056, : 28440011

Rank 3 BHARTI TELE-VENTURES LTD Revenue : Rs 80,350 million(2004-2005) Chairman: Sunil Bharti MittalWebSite : www.bhartiteleventure.comRegd. Office : Qutab Ambience (at Qutab Minar), Mehrauli Road, New Delhi110030, Fax : 011-51666011/12, : 51666000

Rank 4 HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD Revenue : Rs. 77,836 million(2004-2005) Chairman: Ajai ChowdhryWebSite : www.hclinfosystems.comCorp. Office: E-4, 5, 6, Sector 11, Noida 201301, Fax : 0120-2550977

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Rank 5 TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD (TCS)Revenue : Rs 74,490 million(2004-2005) Chairman: Ratan N. TataWebSite : www.tcs.comRegd. Office : Bombay House, 24 Homi Mody Street Fort, Mumbai 400001Fax : 022-56658080, 56658282

Rank 6 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Revenue : Rs 71,296 mn, President: Nandan M. NilekaniWebSite : www.infosys.comAddress : Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100Fax : 080-28520261, 28520362

Rank 7 LG ELECTRONIC INDIA PVT LTD (LGEIL)Revenue : Rs 65,000 million(2004-2005) MD: Kwang Ro KimWebSite: www.lgezbuy.comHead. Office : Plot No. 51, UdNoida, UP Fax : 0120-25

Rank 8 WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LRevenue : Rs 60,750 millionWebSite : www.wipro.coRegd. Office : DoddakhannellFax : 080-28440256, 284

Rank 9 MAHANAGAR TELEPHONRevenue : Rs. 55,654 million(2004-WebSite: www.mtnl.inHead. Office : Jeevan Bharti BCircus, New DelhiFax : 011-23314243, 237

Rank 10 RELIANCE INFOCOMM LTRevenue : Rs 53,870 millionWebSite : www.relianceiCorp. Office : Dhirubhai AmbFax : 022-27624213, 303733

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N I S T e – N E W SResearch and Development

Research paper1. M Reza and A S Gupta, Steady two-dimensional oblique stagnation-point flow towards astretching surface, Fluid Dynamics Research, July 8, 2005, Elsevier Science, July 2005.

2. A S Gupta, J C Misra and M Reza, Magnetohydrodynamic shear flow along a flat platewith uniform suction or blowing, Z angew Math Phys. 56(2005).

Tutorial Proposal Accepted in ICDCIT- 05A Tutorial proposal of NIST Faculty Dr Partha S Mallick has been accepted by theInternational Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology(ICDCIT) to beheld on December 21-23, 2005 at Bhubaneswar. The title of the proposal is Matlab – anessential Tool for Engineers.

ISTE, IEEE Lecture Series….• Prof Arun Panda, HOD, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IGIT,

Sarang, delivered a talk on September 27, 2005 on Artificial Neural Network - anOverview at Lecture Hall. NIST faculty & final year students attended the seminar.

• Prof Suash Dev, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, NIST presented aseminar on Genetic Algorithm on October 1, 2005. M.Tech students, facultymembers, Course Coordinators, Dean and Deputy Director attended the seminar.

Person of the MonthIt is a great pleasure for NISTe_News to announce the name of Gourav Bhuyan and AnuragMohapatra, President and Secretary of Sankalp 2005 as the Persons of this Month who ledthe team of our annual techno-festival Sankalp 2005.

Gourav Bhuyan of 7th Semester, BE, President of ISTE Chapter of NIST is the youngest sonof Mr S K Bhuyan and Mrs Rajashree Bhuyan of Cuttack, Orissa. His elderbrothers Saswat Bhuyan and Saurav Bhuyan have already completed their BEfrom NIST. Gourav plays Football, Volleyball and he is also an athlete whorepresented NIST many times. His hobbies includes playing outdoor games,writing poems, listening to music and reading books.

Anurag Mohapatra, of 7th Semester, BE, Secretary of ISTE Chapter is the younger son ofProf. Jayanta Kumar Mohapatra and Dr. Kanakalata Mishra. He was bornand brought up in Berhampur, Orissa and completed schooling from St.Vincent Convent School and 12th from Binayaka Acharya College,Berhampur. He is one of the many students who has been selected throughcampus recruitment and is due to join INFOSYS. His hobbies includesreading books, playing music, watching movies.

With best compliments from….

Sree Book Store, NIST Campus

A Centre for All Types of Engineering Books and Stationeries

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYPalur Hills, Berhampur, Orissa – 761008Phones: (0680)2492421-22, www.nist.eduAs part of its social commitment to the people of south Orissa, NIST, a premierengineering institute of India, invites application for employment oriented trainingprogramme in the below mentioned areas, free of cost with monthly stipend for thestudents of SOUTH ORISSA only.

Certificate Course in Electronics Repair & Maintenance Certificate Course in Basic Computer Skills Certificate Course in Computerized DTP Certificate Course in Computer Maintenance Certificate Course in Workshop Practice(Lathe, CNC Milling, Welding,

Carpentry) Training Programme will offer ample opportunity for employment to selected candidatesEligibility: Passed 10th/HSC with atleast 50% marks, family annual income should beless than Rs.50,000/. Duration: 4 MonthsStipend: Rs.800/ per month (including boarding & lodging)Selection: Purely on the basis of merit & income criteriaApply in a plain paper to the “Co-Ordinator(Employment Oriented Program)” at abovementioned address mentioning name, contact address, qualification details withcertificates, family annual income with proof, course interested etc. by 3rd December,2005. Program will commence from 7th January, 2006.

The annual Technical Festival of NISTians, Sankalp was organised by ISTE StudentChapter from October 28-30, 2005 in a grand style. Here are some photographs…